Finishing & Screen Printing

Doveton Press solves bottleneck with Polar 78X

Doveton Press is to replace a 15 year old guillotine with a Polar 78X this month to eliminate a bottleneck in its production following the installation of its high output SM 52-4+L Anicolor and SM74-4+L presses over the past couple of years.

Thursday 10. September 2009 - Doveton Press is to replace a 15 year old guillotine with a Polar 78X this month to eliminate a bottleneck in its production following the installation of its high output SM 52-4+L Anicolor and SM74-4+L presses over the past couple of years.

Mark Savage, managing director, says: “Cutting technology has moved on and this tenth generation Polar programmable guillotine technology is impressive. We like the fact it is robust, that the Optiknife makes knife changing safe and easy and that we could in future integrate this into our existing JDF workflows.

“Cutting is one of those critical tasks which is often overlooked but good quality printing deserves to be complemented by a sharp, accurate cut and by professional finishing generally. The Polar will take work from our two litho presses and our Nexpress digital press.”

Compared to the previous machine the company will find the graphic user interface better and more user friendly, the front tables deeper and the speed of the reverse backgauge system faster at 30cm/second.

Doveton Press is 40 years old and offers a design to delivery service to designers and end users. Its customer base includes the BBC, City of Bristol Council and Park Furnishers. Its work is standard commercial such as letterheads, brochures, business cards, folders, flyers, posters and postcards.